Top help you decide what might make a good pet ,we've put together a pet checklist .We've named some of the animals that are often kept as pets .We've shown some good points and bad points about each .And we hope it may help you make the best choice(选择)
Pick-a-Pet Checklist(清单)
Pets
Good Points
Bad points
Rabbit
Easy to keep
Enjoy being petted
Good to hold
Hard to house train
Drop lots of hair
Easily upset by high temperature
Raccoon
Can be very interesting
Can be friendly when young
Against the law to keep in many states in the U.S.
Can get unkind when older
Cat
Easy to feed & care for
Can live indoors or out
Fun to hold
Very friendly
May scratch furniture
Little pans can be messy
May kill birds
May make you sneeze
Dog
Come in many sizes
Can live indoors or out
Fun to love & play with
Very friendly
Can give safety
Can be smelly ,messy ,noisy
Need to be licensed& trained
May make you sneeze
May bite(咬)if angry
Need lots of attention
【小题1】You are ______ to keep a raccoon as a pet in many places of America.
A. suggested  B. encouraged  C. not allowed
【小题2】It would be easier for you to keep a ______ as a pet if you're often too busy to take care of it .
A. rabbit or raccoon  B. rabbit or cat  C. raccoon or dog
【小题3】If you feed birds at home , you should be very careful to choose a ______ as your another pet.
A .rabbit  B. raccoon  C. cat
【小题4】The dog may ______ you if you make it angry .
A. hurt  B. fix  C. train
【小题5】The writer tries to help us______ with the checklist .
A. learn how to look after our pets
B. find which animal is our best choice as a pet
C. Know what kind of animals can be kept as a pet

Now some women are spending a weekend at Mother’s Camp. There, husbands and children are not allowed. Why would a woman want to take a vacation without her family? Some women say they need time to be alone.

   At Mother’s Camp a woman has room to herself. She can sleep, read or watch TV, and no one will bother her. No children will ask, ”Mom, what’s for dinner?” No husband will say, “Oh, dear, I can’t find any clean socks.” In fact almost 50% of women in the United States work outside the home. Many of them work full- time and then come home to a second job – taking care of their homes and families. These working women say one of their biggest problems is housework.

   In the United States, working wives do about 75% of the housework. Many of their husbands say they want to help. But then they burn the rice or they can’t find the pans. They ask so many questions that their wives decide it is easier to do the job themselves.

   Some women go to Mother’s Camp just to get a break from housework. For two days they don’t cook, they don’t clean, they don’t look after their children and husbands. What do they do? They enjoy warm, sunny weather, walking, swimming or boating in a clear blue lake and sing songs around the camp-fire. They relax away from home. They have a really wonderful vacation at Mother’s Camp.

1. From this passage we can see ________ in the United States.

A. women want to work outside the home

B. working wives do most of the housework

C. husbands do as much housework as their wives

D. women like being bothered by their families

2.At Mother’s Camp, women can’t _______.

A. watch TV                       B. read newspapers  

C. swim in the lake                  D. bring their husbands and children

3.Why would some mothers like to be alone? Because _________.

A. they don’t like their husbands and children

B. they have to work full – time

C. they are too busy to relax themselves

D. they want a new life

4.________ is one of the biggest trouble for working wives in the United States.

A. Housework                      B. Working outside the home   

C. When to take a vacation            D. Looking after their children 

5.What’s the best title for this passage?

A. Busy Working Mothers            B. Welcome to Mother’s Camp

C. Mothers Relax Away from Home    D. Mothers in the U.S.

 

 

         The famous Chinese mathematician(数学家) Hua Luogeng was born in Jintan County, Jiangsu province in 1910. When he was young, life was very difficult for his family. Still, the boy took great interest in math.

         In the summer of 1931, he was fortunate(幸运的) enough to become an assistant in the Math Department(系) of Qinghua University, where he spent every moment he could find working and studying, and he finished his compulsory(必修的) math course all by himself in only 13 months!

         Between the years of 1936 and 1938, he was further studying in Cambridge University in the U.K. In 1950, together with his family, he returned to China from the USA. He said, “I’m Chinese, and I’ll do my best for my motherland.”

         So he did. He devoted(贡献) all his life to the math study and won the great fame(荣誉) for our country.

         He died for heart trouble in 1985 while lecturing in Japan. People will always remember him as a great scientist.

1. Which of the following is not true?

A.      Hua Luogeng is a famous Chinese mathematician.

B.      Hua Luogeng died in China.

C.      Hua Luogeng was born in Jingtan County.

D.      Hua Luogeng comes from Jiangsu.

2. The word “assistant”in this passage means “____” in Chinese.

A.      帮手           B.服务员          C.助教            D.教授

3.Hua Luogeng was ____ in 1937. Which of the following cannot be chosen?

         A. in China    B. abroad    C. in Cambridge    D. in England

4. From the story we can guess that Hua Luogeng was born in ____.

         A. a rich family                                  B. a poor family

         C. a mathematician family                D. a fortunate family

 

 

         The famous Chinese mathematician(数学家) Hua Luogeng was born in Jintan County, Jiangsu province in 1910. When he was young, life was very difficult for his family. Still, the boy took great interest in math.

         In the summer of 1931, he was fortunate(幸运的) enough to become an assistant in the Math Department(系) of Qinghua University, where he spent every moment he could find working and studying, and he finished his compulsory(必修的) math course all by himself in only 13 months!

         Between the years of 1936 and 1938, he was further studying in Cambridge University in the U.K. In 1950, together with his family, he returned to China from the USA. He said, “I’m Chinese, and I’ll do my best for my motherland.”

         So he did. He devoted(贡献) all his life to the math study and won the great fame(荣誉) for our country.

         He died for heart trouble in 1985 while lecturing in Japan. People will always remember him as a great scientist.

1. Which of the following is not true?

A.      Hua Luogeng is a famous Chinese mathematician.

B.      Hua Luogeng died in China.

C.      Hua Luogeng was born in Jingtan County.

D.      Hua Luogeng comes from Jiangsu.

2. The word “assistant”in this passage means “____” in Chinese.

A.      帮手           B.服务员          C.助教            D.教授

3.Hua Luogeng was ____ in 1937. Which of the following cannot be chosen?

         A. in China    B. abroad    C. in Cambridge    D. in England

4. From the story we can guess that Hua Luogeng was born in ____.

         A. a rich family                                  B. a poor family

         C. a mathematician family                D. a fortunate family